Accounting Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Accounting Manager

RPM is an international non-asset-based logistics and supply chain solutions company. RPM has recently partnered up with Dealers Choice Auto Transport to offer an expanded value to customers, now gaining access to RPM’s expansive carrier network and OE relationships, offering robust new solutions to address capacity and efficiency challenges across their supply chains. Dealers Choice Auto Transport is an auto transport specialist for dealerships nationwide, providing fully for highline and exotic vehicles. The company takes pride in offering clients the proper shipping they need, setting them apart from others in the industry.

Your Role

The Accounting Manager is responsible for maintaining accurate financial records in accordance with U.S. GAAP, ensuring timely financial reporting, managing payroll and core accounting operations, and driving disciplined working capital management across accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit, collections, and cash management. The Accounting Manager will directly supervise accounts payable and accounts receivable staff, establish clear processes and performance expectations, and ensure the timely and accurate completion of accounting activities.

The position also carries reporting responsibility to RPM’s corporate office in Birmingham, Michigan, requiring close coordination on financial reporting, accounting policies, internal controls, and financial performance. The Accounting Manager will oversee general ledger activity, journal entries, account reconciliations, revenue recognition, and financial reporting while supporting the annual budgeting and forecasting processes and ensuring adherence to established accounting standards and corporate reporting deadlines.

The ideal candidate combines a strong technical accounting foundation with proven team leadership, sound financial judgment, and a proactive, hands-on approach to problem-solving and process improvement. This individual will play an important role in strengthening financial discipline, improving cash flow, promoting accountability, and supporting the continued growth of Dealers Choice and RPM.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

General Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Manage the month-end close process, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely financial results in accordance with established deadlines and accounting policies.
• Prepare, review, and manage journal entries, accruals, and general ledger activity.
• Prepare, maintain, and review account reconciliations and supporting schedules, ensuring account balances are accurate, properly supported, and resolved promptly.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate financial records in accordance with U.S. GAAP, including applicable revenue recognition standards.
• Monitor and accurately record intercompany transactions with related entities, maintaining detailed supporting schedules and ensuring balances are properly reconciled.
• Investigate account discrepancies, analyze financial variances, and ensure transactions are recorded in the appropriate accounting period.
• Maintain organized, accurate, and audit-ready accounting records and documentation.
• Prepare and submit required financial reports, reconciliations, and supporting schedules to RPM’s corporate financial office in Birmingham, Michigan.
• Coordinate with corporate finance on reporting deadlines, accounting policies, internal controls, audit requests, and resolution of accounting issues.
• Support the annual year-end audit by preparing account reconciliations, supporting schedules, documentation, and other requested information. Coordinate with external auditors and RPM corporate finance to address questions and resolve outstanding items.
• Support year-end tax preparation and compliance by compiling financial records, account detail, reconciliations, and supporting documentation for RPM corporate finance and external tax advisors.
• Assist with year-end accounting adjustments and reporting requirements, ensuring financial records are complete, accurate, and properly supported.

Accounting Team Leadership

• Directly manage and develop accounts payable and accounts receivable staff, establishing clear responsibilities, priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Oversee daily workflows to ensure invoices, payments, customer billings, collections, reconciliations, and related activities are completed accurately and on time.
• Monitor team performance, workload, and aging metrics, providing coaching and addressing process or performance gaps.
• Establish and maintain standardized procedures, controls, and reporting routines across AP and AR.
• Promote cross-functional collaboration, consistent execution, and continuous improvement within the accounting team.
• Serve as the primary local accounting leader, coordinating with Dealers Choice management and RPM corporate finance to resolve issues and improve financial processes.

AR/AP Credit & Collections

• Oversee accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, ensuring accurate processing, appropriate documentation, and timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Monitor AP and AR aging and drive actions to keep accounts current, resolve past-due balances, and minimize payment delays.
• Manage accrued payables and ensure liabilities are accurately recorded and appropriately supported.
• Oversee customer credit management, including monitoring credit exposure, payment history, credit terms, and collection risks.
• Drive proactive collections and follow-up on outstanding customer balances, partnering with customers and internal stakeholders to resolve disputes and billing issues.
• Establish clear accountability for invoice processing, payment follow-up, aging management, and timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Escalate delinquent accounts and credit risks, recommending appropriate actions to protect company cash flow while maintaining customer relationships.

Cash Management and Working Capital

• Monitor and manage cash balances against established company targets and requirements.
• Conduct bank reconciliations and promptly investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Support cash forecasting and provide visibility into expected receipts, disbursements, and potential cash flow risks.
• Improve working capital performance through disciplined management of receivables, payables, collections, and account aging.
• Partner with RPM corporate finance and Dealers Choice operational leadership to communicate cash trends, identify risks, and support financial decision-making.

Payroll Administration

• Oversee payroll processing to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time and that payroll-related deadlines and requirements are met.
• Ensure payroll transactions, payroll accruals, and related liabilities are accurately recorded in the general ledger.
• Reconcile payroll accounts and related tax, benefit, and deduction balances, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Coordinate with Human Resources, employees, payroll providers, and corporate finance on payroll changes, reporting, and issue resolution.
• Maintain appropriate payroll documentation, confidentiality, and internal controls in accordance with company policies and applicable requirements.

Budget Support & Financial Analysis

• Support the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes in partnership with Dealers Choice leadership and RPM corporate finance by providing accurate financial data, historical results, expense detail, and relevant operating information.
• Monitor actual financial performance against budget and forecast, identify material variances, and provide supporting analysis to help explain key drivers.
• Prepare financial reports and analyses to support cost management, expense visibility, and informed business decisions.
• Partner with department leaders and corporate finance to investigate variances, track expenses, and improve visibility into financial performance.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen expense controls, improve reporting accuracy, and support overall profitability and working capital performance.

Process Improvement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Develop, document, and improve accounting procedures, internal controls, and financial workflows to promote accuracy, consistency, and efficiency.
• Ensure local accounting processes align with RPM corporate policies, reporting requirements, and internal control standards.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and improve the quality and timeliness of financial information.
• Collaborate with operations, customer service, Human Resources, and RPM corporate finance to resolve issues and strengthen business processes.